Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 23:01 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
Install a Linux and call it Windows 2014 - super professional special
admin edition and this kind of user will have no issue, call it Linux
and they will ask you to remove it and reinstall Windows again.
I agree :)
This is a good point.
Quasi the only point of my reply, so I should have send just this note.
Most dual Windows/Linux booters who used Windows for years never ever
seriously will switch to Linux. I suspect that many users have trouble
with Windows. When they switch to Linux they expect to get rid of the
trouble, but they will experience more, since the thing between monitor
and chair is the culprit and not the OS, so they likely will boot
Windows only.
That's a very interesting point, but I wonder if it's true. There are
real-world reasons to run both windows on linux on the same machine
(personal example: running Linux on my laptop for development and
demonstrations; running Windows for office applications).
But, having said that, when one really uses two operating systems on the
same machine, I expect it's more common to run one under virtualization,
so you can run both at the same time - dual booting is a real pain if
one is really USING both operating systems.
What are other people's experiences? How many folks here use Windows
(or Mac o/s) on the same machine as a linux distribution? Do you
dual-boot or do you virtualize?